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RFC2324 posted:http://the-ear.net/review-hardware/audioquest-pearl-and-cinnamon-ethernet-cables-digital-interconnect Absolutely fantastic.
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RFC2324 posted:What is a network supervisor anyway? Guy with a clipboard that makes sure the lights are blinking.
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Nov 25, 2016 23:30
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RFC2324 posted:What is a network supervisor anyway? He gives the NOC a heads up to look busy because someone's coming.
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Nov 25, 2016 23:35
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RFC2324 posted:What is a network supervisor anyway? Duh, they supervise the network. To make sure it's not slacking off watching YouTube videos, presumably.
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Nov 25, 2016 23:44
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It sounds like a NOC position, where someone monitors the network and tells someone when there is a big flashing light.
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Nov 26, 2016 00:44
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It's like a network hypervisor, but with less permissions I think.
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Nov 26, 2016 01:11
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Johnny Aztec posted:Guy with a clipboard that makes sure the lights are blinking. Sometimes the lights don't blink and I think I should tell someone, but I just look away.
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Nov 26, 2016 02:49
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Johnny Aztec posted:Guy with a clipboard that makes sure the lights are blinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYd38vFb6nM
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Nov 26, 2016 04:58
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Mo_Steel posted:It's like a network hypervisor, but with less permissions I think. I see what you did there.
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Nov 26, 2016 12:59
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A ticket came in, a label printer is down. I asked them to check the cables and switch, but they said it was fine. I go in, on the way is another ticket about a paper tray. The label printer is unplugged at the power brick, strike one. The label printer is switched off, strike two. The label printer is plugged into a dead ethernet port, strike three you're all morons. The paper tray thing was fixed by a simple power cycle. The user was asked to do this very thing by the help desk, but was thwarted by her inability to figure out which button was the power button. I poo poo you not. And this is a Laserjet M604 where the power button is clearly marked on the front and not a switch on the side like a 4200.  These people are responsible for your healthcare At least I got double time for this nonsense instead of just regular time. I got called in for 6 hours for a dead switch and it wasn't overtime due to the holidays in this pay period.
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Nov 26, 2016 17:16
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skooma512 posted:These people are responsible for your healthcare
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Nov 26, 2016 23:19
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Super Slash posted:That's the least of your worries, a few years I had lovely data job transcribing census forms and I saw plenty of literally indecipherable handwriting; all by doctors and teachers. I worked through college doing medical transcription. Over and over you'd hear the doctor say "blah blah, you know what to put here" when dealing with cardiac patients and their symptoms and treatments, or poo poo was just completely garbled because "Dr. Drunkard" like to do all of his transcription at least 3 glasses of wine and a couple of Quaaludes into his night.
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Nov 26, 2016 23:25
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Today is the quarterly staff meeting where we get to sit around for 2 hours hearing management and sales wank on about nothing. I'm split about 50/50 between either taking a phone call at 10:59 and just missing the meeting completely or going in there and telling every moron exactly how stupid and incompetent they are and then just leaving the building immediately.
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Nov 27, 2016 23:45
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We have a meeting once a month to go over things that the people who need to know about already know, and everybody else could just grab a summary out of SharePoint for or whatever. It always starts about 15 minutes late as well just to ensure the maximum amount of time is wasted.
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Nov 28, 2016 00:56
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Thanks Ants posted:We have a meeting once a month to go over things that the people who need to know about already know, and everybody else could just grab a summary out of SharePoint for or whatever. It always starts about 15 minutes late as well just to ensure the maximum amount of time is wasted. We have a monthly "town hall" meeting which is pure dog and pony show to make the CTO feel important. They started kind of promising, supposedly to be about being transparent about things going on and decisions being made and considered, which lasted for all of one meeting, after which they have all been feel good "congrats to this team or that team on whatever they did recently" wastes of time.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:07
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We have a weekly meeting where we're asked who is working on what and they make announcements about any special events. I like hearing about free food, but I don't need to hear kudos, and it would be a lot easier to just have everyone email the supervisor about what they're doing and have her send it out in an email. That way we can check back on it, and we don't have to sit there for 10 minutes doing it.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:10
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I'm doing a masters part time now and the biweekly all team meeting that takes over 2 hours just happens to be on one of my uni days now. I'm so very sad that I have to miss it. [Borat voice] not
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Nov 28, 2016 01:23
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Our monthly all - hands meeting is supposed to foster a strong team spirit with the upper management. Does not quite work, given the number of times the CEO was phoning in from home as they had the builders in for their new kitchen, or they were waiting for the delivery of their second container of new furniture, or they were overseas on a business trip to somewhere sunny.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:32
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Khisanth Magus posted:We have a monthly "town hall" meeting which is pure dog and pony show to make the CTO feel important. They started kind of promising, supposedly to be about being transparent about things going on and decisions being made and considered, which lasted for all of one meeting, after which they have all been feel good "congrats to this team or that team on whatever they did recently" wastes of time. We have rah rah quarterly all hands meetings for our org, but they are quite fortunately optional.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:51
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If you rely on a monthly meeting for your employees to know what direction the company is headed in and the latest projects that are being worked on then you're doing the whole 'communicating' thing wrong anyway.
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Nov 28, 2016 02:10
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No no no no no no no ...... Y'all are getting it all wrong. Those meetings are about your higher-ups reaching their lame-rear end "achievements" <<< for their big-rear end bonus's It's not about improvement - it's about self-administered "metrics" that you'll never be privy to. How's your work environment? Toxic?
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Today I got a ticket involving a person I will call 'FailSonSysAdmin'Abridged Ticket posted:Yo, this is network operations. There's a web server on your part of the network that's vulnerable to XSS. Now, I work in the network office as like a junior junior junior junior network admin. So I typically get these requests and then my boss has me chase them down to make sure the departments fix their stuff, and if they can't do it themselves then he has me do it. It's led to wacky stuff like me spending 2 days flattening and reinstalling computers because my boss couldn't admit he didn't read server logs closely enough or me having to harden an OS X web server running on a spare computer under someone's desk that hadn't been updated in like 3 years. Anyway, the department in question has multiple people who should be able to take care of these things, though. So I forward this notice along to the admin in question and CC his boss. Me posted:We got this notice from network operations. This is a common kind of vulnerability. You really have to make sure to validate/escape/sanitize all user input. I expect that since this is a critical security matter that the guy whose job it is to deal with these things will get back to me promptly. 2 hours pass, an e-mail comes in. FailSonSysAdmin posted:Thank you for the notice. We'll get on this ASAP! Nothing like getting a late response to a critical issue that includes the phrase "ASAP." An hour passes, offending page is still up, nothing has been done, an e-mail comes in. E-mail TO FailSonSysAdmin posted:FailSonSysAdmin, This seemed like a non-sequitur! So I investigate and see a message from FailSonSysAdmin carefully crafted so it doesn't go to anyone else in the chain saying: FailSonSysAdmin posted:OtherSysAdminOfNotThisServer, What's hilarious about this is that mod_security was installed in response to a similar notice back in July. So I spend literally about 10 seconds Googling and find out that it can IN FACT prevent the exact type of cross-site scripting that's happening. It pops up with the most minimal of Google searching! I thought it was kind of fishy back in July that he was like, "well we installed a new application firewall so everything should be okay!" I just let it go because I'm a junior junior junior junior admin and my boss didn't seem to care. Last week, though, FailSonSysAdmin's boss ropes me in on a ticket because their SSL cert wasn't configured properly in Apache and all the major browsers were putting up big DANGER DANGER DANGER warnings. FailSonSysAdmin was like, "this may take some time." I ended up sending him a link to the SSL Labs report and saying, "yo! your cert config is messed up! fix the errors then run SSL Labs on it again!" So considering that he can't even configure an SSL cert in apache without handholding and doesn't know about freely-available rulesets for tools he's using... What are the chances mod_security is even properly-configured enough to be active and working? He didn't even know the version of Cent they're running is going to be EoL'ed in Q1 next year... If internal politics works out then I may be paid to answer this exciting question! ErIog fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Goons posted:Meetings 
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Sometimes I attend the weekly office meetings just because that's when the receptionist makes coffee and everyone is expected to attend so if I get boxed in by people while filling my cup I can't just push my way out. My boss does monthly one-on-ones that I diaried for him as "Doing a Great Job Meetup" where he buys me a coffee and we spend some time chatting about life. In other news, we are being audited by Microsoft, and apparently they sicced the 'problem child' consultancy on us since it was so messy last time 
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Nov 28, 2016 10:50
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We have a weekly conference call as we are spread across the country, it used to take about 90mins but we've all realised if we say we have no issues then it can go as low as approx. 30 mins which is better. My other boss keeps suggesting we have a monthly meeting, which I just don't turn up for, despite being sat next door  she doesn't seem to care so that works for me
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Nov 28, 2016 11:32
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An early morning failure came in; A routine server reboot turned into a failure, somehow the act of rebooting it caused the UPS its connected with to power itself off meaning nothing was able to power itself on (this particular server didn't have any mains supply, whoops), of course this took out a host, the router, and a switch... so good times, at least at was in the morning! Pretty interesting that it wasn't able to turn back on just because, although there might've been other shenanigans since it was only over half charged as well.
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Nov 28, 2016 12:13
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angry armadillo posted:We have a weekly conference call as we are spread across the country, it used to take about 90mins but we've all realised if we say we have no issues then it can go as low as approx. 30 mins which is better. Ours is bi-weekly and is mostly just my boss bringing up important topics and if someone went to a trade show, they'll talk about the new things they saw so we know what's coming. They've never gone above 30 minutes and get cancelled if there's nothing new to bring up, a huge improvement over my last job which was a monthly "talk about everything that you're doing, even if there's nothing new from the last meeting" meeting that went over 3 hours and I wanted to die by the end of them.
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Nov 28, 2016 12:54
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Super Slash posted:A routine server reboot A what?
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Nov 28, 2016 14:20
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RFC2324 posted:A what? e: Not bashing you Super Slash, it's just the usual reason I see people have scheduled server reboots and it makes me facepalm each time.
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Nov 28, 2016 14:37
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Collateral Damage posted:Read: "Our garbage in-house application leaks memory and we don't know how to fix it so we just reboot the server once a week" To be fair, it might be a garbage third party application that they're never going to fix, and you can't replace right now, so you're stuck.
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Nov 28, 2016 14:47
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RFC2324 posted:A what? Dell monitoring software install  Something our MSP was rolling out so I let them have at it on the weekend, nice way to start Monday morning.
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Volmarias posted:To be fair, it might be a garbage third party application that they're never going to fix, and you can't replace right now, so you're stuck. perhaps a scheduled task might restart that service rather than the entire server
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Nov 28, 2016 15:02
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spog posted:Our monthly all - hands meeting is supposed to foster a strong team spirit with the upper management. Ours does this but from his beach house. "CAN YOU SPEAK UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE WAVES"
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Nov 28, 2016 15:12
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Super Slash posted:Dell monitoring software install Ok, when you said routine, I read it the same way everyone else seems to have: "We reboot this server regularly" Thats actually a sane(ish) reason to reboot
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Nov 28, 2016 15:14
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RFC2324 posted:Ok, when you said routine, I read it the same way everyone else seems to have: "We reboot this server regularly" Rebooting a server every once in awhile is good general advice though? In the Linux world, at least until ksplice or kgraft becomes more commonly used, it's the only way to get a kernel update, and it solves the "make everything use a new version of glibc" issue after updates to it. I'm not saying "restart everything every software release" but quarterly or in response to vulnerabilities is probably wise.
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Anyone have software recommendations for something to scan all domain computers for a list of local admin accounts? Or is this something I could eventually hack my way through with PowerShell in some way/shape form? I think we have all the PC's locked down now, but I'm wanting to have something I can use to double-check.
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Khisanth Magus posted:We have a monthly "town hall" meeting which is pure dog and pony show to make the CTO feel important. They started kind of promising, supposedly to be about being transparent about things going on and decisions being made and considered, which lasted for all of one meeting, after which they have all been feel good "congrats to this team or that team on whatever they did recently" wastes of time. I like my company's transparency model which is comprised of similar attaboys, vague promises, and *totally regretful* "we can't talk about that yet" statements. It makes it easy to duck out every town hall and ask someone for the 10 second overview later (usually "no, they didn't really say anything").
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Siochain posted:Anyone have software recommendations for something to scan all domain computers for a list of local admin accounts? Or is this something I could eventually hack my way through with PowerShell in some way/shape form? You would think this would be simple in Powershell, but it's not. You have to delve into ADSI which involves a bunch of NET poo poo rather than just cmdlets. Here's an example. EDIT: It's not actually that bad, and ADSI is really powerful, but you know. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 28, 2016 16:12
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Siochain posted:Anyone have software recommendations for something to scan all domain computers for a list of local admin accounts? Or is this something I could eventually hack my way through with PowerShell in some way/shape form? PDQ inventory pulls this info and you can probably create a custom report on it.
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Boogalo posted:PDQ inventory pulls this info and you can probably create a custom report on it. If you administer windows clients as part of your duties and aren't using pdq inventory, you are making you work harder.
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